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Show HoilOr Race Entitled to j-u -M- Distinction for tile JeW Achievements Ily ISRAEL ZANGWILL. Playwflllhl, and Head of .lunll Muvemrnl. UK iK'tive prcjnclit'o nniiist Jews is bad imioiikIi, l"tt wo suf- np for almost moro from (lie toiispirncy of Milcncc. Anions l'v',000,000 people of any one rnto tliuro would, of eoum, Ik- fmnny criiuiiinls. When a Jew is caught in a erime nobody fnils to record the fnet. Hut when a .lew is praised for some great virtue his Jcwisluiess is left tmmcntioned as a rule. For instance, on three Hiiecesaive days Inst year three great .lews died, and, not one paper that I Haw mentioned that they 1 1 " were .lews. I refer to Mendeleefr, the great Nubian chemist ; Viscount Ooschen, of the house of lords, and chancellor of the exchequer, and a French Jew, whose name escapes me, who left 1,000,000 a million pounds, not dollars to the Pasteur institute. The greatest dramatic success of America in recent years wns "The Music Master," wrjttcn by a .lew, Charles Klein; produced by a .lew, David Da-vid Hclasro, and played by a Jew, David WnWichl. .Many people call Mr. Warield tho best American actor, but few mention him as a Jew. The chess champion of the world is an American Jew. The Nobel prizo in physics was given to an American last year, Albert A. Michelson, who measured the velocity of light. How many know that ho is a Jew? When Mr. (luggenhcim and his New York linn did something unheard un-heard of in American iinance and stood a clear loss of $1,400,000 to protect pro-tect innocent investors, ninny papers spoke of it, hut not one that I saw mentioned the fact that this was "Jewish llnanco." Everybody said that this was an unprecedented case of , business uprightness, up-rightness, but the Jews got no credit for it. We are branded as a people who have only one god, money. Yet some of the highest minded souls in America are Jews. On my visit to New York city I have been entertained enter-tained by such men as Oscar Straus of the president's cabinet; Judge-Mayer Judge-Mayer Sulzberger of Philadelphia, who got more votes in his district thnn Koosevclt at the last election. J was in the house when the news came and he never mentioned it; I learned it outside. Then there is Dr. Jacob Hollander, who established the iinances of Puerto Hieo; Dr. Schech-ter, Schech-ter, the head of the Jewish Theological seminary, who came hero from Cambridge university, where he was almost idolized; Louis Loeb, the eminent painter, one of whose masterpieces Mr. Daniel Guggenheim gave to tho Metropolitan museum. Men like those ought to contradict the Shylock legend. |